1. Department of Computer Sciences Bahria University (Karachi Campus)
SEN-351
ADVANCED DATABASES
Khawaja Mohiuddin
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Sciences
Bahria University (Karachi Campus)

2. COURSE ASSESSMENT
Quizzes…………………………...…10%
Lab Assignments ……...………..……10%
HW Assignments & Report ……….…10%
Midterm …………………..…………20%
Final Examination ……..……………. 50%

3. Important Announcements
Attendance
Mandatory for student to have at least 80% attendance
Otherwise, they will not be allowed to sit in the final examination
Plagiarism
Taking words, ideas, figures or materials from other sources and presenting them as one's own
Students found guilty of plagiarism and academic dishonesty will be subject to disciplinary action
Website (
Visit website regularly for lectures, announcements and other material
Address
Send only to Bahria address

4. Books And References
We will be using multiple books in order to cover the topics
Database Systems: Models, Languages, Design and Application Programming, 6th Ed, by Ramez Elmasri and Shamkant B. Navathe. 2013
Fundamentals of Database Systems, 6th Ed, Addison Wesley, by Elmasri and Navathe
Database System Concepts, 6th Ed, Mcgraw Hill, by Silberschatz, Korth and Sudarshan
Database Systems - Design, Implementation and Management, 11th Ed, Course Technology, by Coronel, Morris and Rob
And few more …
For each lecture, the name of the book it is taken from will be specified.

5. Course Outline Object Oriented Databases Object-Relational Databases
Temporal, Spatial and Geographic Databases
XML Data Models
XML Documents and DTD
XML Query Languages
Distributed Databases

6. Course Outline (contd.)
Multimedia Database Systems
Mobile Databases
Data Warehouse and OLAP systems
Business Intelligence
Current Research and Development Trends of Database Analysis, Design, Modeling and Applications
Data Mining
Big Data